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By Xu Yihe
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Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell has signed a deal with Chinas Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry to jointly research and develop techniques to derive high-tech fuels from synthetic gas produced from coal.
Shell Global Solutions International said the research would focus on tapping Indias vast coal reserved to produce alternative fuels or value-added chemicals. It said the research had the potential to realise new technologies to produce cleaner fuels and fuel additives from coal, and to reduce dependence on petroleum for transport.
Shell said the research into higher alcohol technology would seek to reduce the environmental footprint of synthetic fuels production by using byproducts such as carbon dioxide or hydrocarbons in synthetic gas or in gasoline blending.
This agreement is a nice example of Shell’s approach to collaboration with Chinese institutes to find and demonstrate an alternative way to convert coal into fuels, said Shell chief technology officer Jan van der Eijk.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
